I completely agree that this company (like many others) will take all they can from the employees, if the employees allow it. Those who say that you should set boundaries and not allow the company to literally squeeze you... I believe that they themselves know that this is easy to say but not easy to achieve, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe someone knows effective ways to help set boundaries even when it comes to dealing with a totally irrational boss (of which there are many in this company)?
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Agree about the pressure cooker comments above entirely. If you are a great employee who sees all the dysfunction and tries to fix it, you inevitably come up against a terrible k-a supervisor who is useless. How many billions wasted on products/solutions that don't even work, have no market, are too expensive etc. If you want to stay - best to sit back, be a yes person and give top marks on the survey - lay low.
It took far too many years but you just have to stop saying yes no matter what.
My bosses have always said something along the lines of don’t work late or on the weekend while on a 5pm friday call asking for something by monday morning. Sure wink wink I’ll just do those ten hours of work without doing that thanks for the support boss.
Don’t work in transport NOC. Sky is always falling, even if it’s not a hard down, thankless job.
The first step in setting boundaries is stop caring about your performance review.
It is very hard to do at Verizon in many jobs. It's a pressure cooker. There are so many executive escalations and threats of them that it's absurd. There is a lack of project management skills at many levels. There is a sense that very few do due diligence pre-project and actually ask those on the front lines and who are in the know (and left with the stress and irrational demands of the escalations) what the technical realities and the actual lead times are before promising pies in the sky. Then add in the greatly incompetent offshore contractors and there you have it. There are some jobs that I would never take at Verizon because it seems the people who work them are expected to ask how high when told to jump. Leadership pays lip service to work life balance but the reality is it doesn't exist for many and especially if you are not union or an offshore contractor. You have to do what is right for you.
Once you stop treating your boss like there God is the 1st step